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  • What can you describe as vindictive : having a strong or unreasoning desire for revenge?

    “the criticism was both vindictive and personalized”

    synonyms: vengeful, revengeful, unforgiving, resentful, acrimonious, bitter; spiteful, mean, rancorous, venomous, malicious, malevolent, nasty, mean-spirited, cruel, unkind.

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  • What can you describe as vindictive : having a strong or unreasoning desire for revenge?

    “the criticism was both vindictive and personalized”

    synonyms: vengeful, revengeful, unforgiving, resentful, acrimonious, bitter; spiteful, mean, rancorous, venomous, malicious, malevolent, nasty, mean-spirited, cruel, unkind.

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  • You might consider emergency or one of its synonyms. What is a serious, unexpected, and often dangerous situation

    requiring immediate action?

    “your quick response in an emergency could be a lifesaver”

    synonyms: crisis, unimpressed situation, extremity, exigency; accident, disaster, catastrophe, calamity; difficulty, plight, predicament, danger

    “a military emergency”

    arising from or needed or used in an emergency.

    a modifier noun:

    emergency “an emergency

    exit” synonyms: urgent, crisis; impromptu,

    extraordinary “an emergency


    meeting” Oxford Living

    Dictionaries a.k.a. Oxford Dictionaries.

    The term uh oh moment also came to mind, but that’s probably a little too childish for what you’re going

    for.

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  • What would you call evasion etc., the

    act of evading.?

    “their adroit evasion of almost all questions”

    synonyms: avoidance, elusion, circumvention, dodging, sidestepping

    “the evasion of immigration control”

    an indirect answer; a prevaricating excuse, but how to explain it: Without any proof and without a prevaricating answer, to avoid a point, meaning without definition, right?

    plural noun: evasions

    “the protestations and evasions of a witness”

    synonyms: prevarication, evasiveness, beating around the bush, hedging, pussyfooting, hemming and hawing, equivocation, vagueness, temporization; rare tergiversation

    “she grew tired of all the evasion”

    “she was evasive about her phone number”

    synonyms: equivocal, prevaricating, elusive, ambiguous, noncommittal, vague, inexplicit, unclear; roundabout, indirect; informal cagey, shifty, slippery

    “the judge was infuriated by the defendant’s evasive answers”

    directed toward avoidance or escape.

    “they decided to take evasive action”

    synonyms: equivocal, prevaricating, elusive, ambiguous, noncommittal, vague, inexplicit, unclear; roundabout, indirect; informal cagey, shifty, slippery

    “the judge was infuriated by the defendant’s evasive answers”

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  • You might consider emergency or one of its synonyms. What is a serious, unexpected, and often dangerous situation

    requiring immediate action?

    “your quick response in an emergency could be a lifesaver”

    synonyms: crisis, unimpressed situation, extremity, exigency; accident, disaster, catastrophe, calamity; difficulty, plight, predicament, danger

    “a military emergency”

    arising from or needed or used in an emergency.

    a modifier noun:

    emergency “an emergency

    exit” synonyms: urgent, crisis; impromptu,

    extraordinary “an emergency


    meeting” Oxford Living

    Dictionaries a.k.a. Oxford Dictionaries.

    The term uh oh moment also came to mind, but that’s probably a little too childish for what you’re going

    for.

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  • Asked on March 27, 2021 in Meaning.

    My example is a slightly different structure? Your first sentence could be rewritten as “He spoke not clearly and correctly” to match your second sentence. Which may be parsed either as “…not clear and correctly” or “””, The same way your first paragraph could be parsed either as “The film is and instructive.” or “The film is not . “The

    film is neither interesting nor instructive”. Or “The film is uninteresting but instructive.” What

    is it like to be a girl?

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  • You might consider emergency or one of its synonyms. What is a serious, unexpected, and often dangerous situation

    requiring immediate action?

    “your quick response in an emergency could be a lifesaver”

    synonyms: crisis, unimpressed situation, extremity, exigency; accident, disaster, catastrophe, calamity; difficulty, plight, predicament, danger

    “a military emergency”

    arising from or needed or used in an emergency.

    a modifier noun:

    emergency “an emergency

    exit” synonyms: urgent, crisis; impromptu,

    extraordinary “an emergency


    meeting” Oxford Living

    Dictionaries a.k.a. Oxford Dictionaries.

    The term uh oh moment also came to mind, but that’s probably a little too childish for what you’re going

    for.

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  • Asked on March 27, 2021 in Meaning.

    My example is a slightly different structure? Your first sentence could be rewritten as “He spoke not clearly and correctly” to match your second sentence. Which may be parsed either as “…not clear and correctly” or “””, The same way your first paragraph could be parsed either as “The film is and instructive.” or “The film is not . “The

    film is neither interesting nor instructive”. Or “The film is uninteresting but instructive.” What

    is it like to be a girl?

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  • Asked on March 27, 2021 in Meaning.

    My example is a slightly different structure? Your first sentence could be rewritten as “He spoke not clearly and correctly” to match your second sentence. Which may be parsed either as “…not clear and correctly” or “””, The same way your first paragraph could be parsed either as “The film is and instructive.” or “The film is not . “The

    film is neither interesting nor instructive”. Or “The film is uninteresting but instructive.” What

    is it like to be a girl?

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  • Asked on March 27, 2021 in Meaning.

    My example is a slightly different structure? Your first sentence could be rewritten as “He spoke not clearly and correctly” to match your second sentence. Which may be parsed either as “…not clear and correctly” or “””, The same way your first paragraph could be parsed either as “The film is and instructive.” or “The film is not . “The

    film is neither interesting nor instructive”. Or “The film is uninteresting but instructive.” What

    is it like to be a girl?

    • 741727 views
    • 6 answers
    • 274094 votes